• NGC 4565 or The Needle Galaxy
    • Needle Galaxy
    Annotated image
  • NGC 4565, The Needle Galaxy, is a giant edge-on
  • spiral galaxy in Coma Berenices.
  • Hover over the picture for an annotated version
  • Date:  29 May 2022
  • FOV:  approximately 68' × 45'; the long axis of NGC 4565 is about 16'
  • Telescope:  Stellarvue SVX102T + SFFX-1 (714mm, f/7)
  • Guiding:  ZWO ASI120MM mini mono guide camera,
  • Stellarvue F050G 50mm guide scope
  • Computer:  ASIair pro Raspberry Pi
  • Mount:  iOptron CEM40
  • Camera:  ZWO ASI071MC Pro Cooled (-10°C) Color CMOS with gain 240
  • Filter:  Baader Light Pollution Moonglow filter with IR cut
  • Stacking:  Forty-five 240 second frames using Deep Sky Stacker
  • Total Time:  3 hours
  • Processing:  Pixinsight – SPCC, DBE, SPCC, BlurXT, NoiseXT, DynCrop,
  • HST, GHS, MStr, PMath MStr + GHS + HST, HDR5,
  • Sat, Scale
  • Location:  Darling Hill Observatory in Vesper, NY